Channel Center | Fort Point

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They're really dragging their feet on those damn garage panels.
 
Interesting lighting overhanging the street here. I wonder if this is city owned lighting? I've seen this in Europe, but not really around Boston.
 
commuter guy said:
Interesting lighting overhanging the street here. I wonder if this is city owned lighting? I've seen this in Europe, but not really around Boston.
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This street, Channel Center Street (formerly Midway Street) is private and is essentially the same status as a shopping center parking lot; privately owned but open to the public. Those are private lights.
 
ADD Inc architects are clearly the best show in town right now. Years ago when I was a bike messenger and going in and out of every building in the city I got curious and made a list of buildings organized by who the architects were, and reading it over again I think ADD was ahead of the game even back around 2007.

I updated the list, and save for the Victor (which is a charmless lump) the latest batch is all very good if not great. Here it is, more or less in chronological order:

OLDER
--125 High
--New Balance 2000
--Lafayette Corporate Center
--Atelier 505
--700 Harrison
--Archstone Boston Common aka Park Essex
--Archstone North Point
--Ames Hotel

RECENT STUFF
--MassArt Tree House
--Six Ten Main
--The Victor
--Channel Center
--225 Centre
--315 on A

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
--100 Pier 4
--One Greenway
--275 Albany
--Olmsted Place
--Envoy Hotel
 
This can be attributed to a couple of moves that Add Inc made internally. The addition of BK Boley and his wife Tamara Roy have really changed the working process of that office. The firm as a whole took a risk to do riskier work and it is panning out for them. I give them a lot of credit for what they have done.

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Well the parking garage is ... better, but if there was ever an appropriate time to utter the phrase "lipstick on a pig" it is now with this garage.
 
That's one way to make a garage look interesting. Supposed to be back lit with LED lighting, I'd like to see it at night.
 
I wish they had put some ivy on the garage. Even using canted mesh trellises following the form of the blue/green panels.
 
Holy cow! I have one word for these panels and that word is FUN!!
 
Is that garage dabbling in geopolitics?

The Ukrainian flag:
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A pity they didn't use those new panels on the entire garage. I like them.
 
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